Winston Groom

Born March 23, 1943· Washington, D.C., USA

† Died September 17, 2020

0Roles

Raised in Mobile, Alabama after an early childhood in Washington, D.C., Groom attended the University of Alabama where he edited the literary magazine and joined the ROTC before serving two years with the Fourth Infantry Division in Vietnam. Returning stateside he reported for the Washington Star, then turned to fiction, publishing his debut Vietnam-war novel in 1978 and later earning a Pulitzer-n… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources